46. A step that marks the beginning. moving time
46. A step that marks the beginning. moving time.
After spending time with Banhana in the dormitory, I texted Yoo Ha-yeon.
-Are you training in the evening? I go to training too.
A text that only means training.
Anyway, if it was Yoo Ha-yeon, I went straight to training, so there was a high chance that I wouldn’t be able to see my text messages.
So all I can do is give a one-sided notice.
‘I have to go and practice quickly.’
I got ready to go to the training ground and was about to go outside.
Banhana grabbed my sleeve and looked at me with anxious eyes.
“Si-Jun. If you wait, you’ll be rewarded, right?”
“Did you see me lying? I’ll go.”
With reassuring words and stroking her head, Banhana hid her anxious expression.
Dependence to the extent that you might be addicted to rewards.
I started thinking inside.
‘Is there any way to change the reward to something else..’
A deformed reward that comes from such a deformed relationship.
Guilt exists because I am a human too.
Keep kissing Banhana as a reward, and kissing another woman for survival?
It was pricking the conscience in my heart.
‘I still have to live. Can’t help it.’
The existence of a contract related to me in the past.
And lost life.
I left the dormitory with such worries.
***
Hero Academy has good facilities so that students can train their abilities even in private time.
For students who hone melee weapons, holographic battles modeled after D to S-class heroes.
For students who hone long-range weapons, training to hit moving targets according to the level of difficulty.
For students with exceptional unique abilities, a free space where they can express themselves without restrictions to increase their magical power.
If students put their mind to it and work hard, so that even lower-ranking students can graduate with good grades,
The training grounds were top notch.
‘You came a little late, too.’
The training ground with such a good facility was crowded with many students.
What I need to train is training to hit a target using a gun.
As I walked towards that place, a holographic battlefield where I could sharpen melee weapons caught my eye.
It is my childhood friend Ha-yeon Yoo who confronts the hologram inside.
Without using her abilities, she was battling a level B-level hero.
‘what..? When did you improve your skills like that?’
Is it true that Yoo Ha-yeon, who used to swing tree branches loosely from side to side when she was young?
When she entered, she used a sword that relied on power.
However, the current Yoo Ha-yeon was using a sword technique that could inflict fatal wounds on the opponent with little effort.
The proficiency of a weapon that accumulates quickly and accumulates slowly depending on talent.
In about three weeks, did Yoo Ha-yeon have accumulated so much skill that I didn’t even know it?
From my point of view, Ha-yeon Yoo’s proficiency seemed to have a fairly high level.
‘That’s why I don’t want to be full of talent.’
Still, it’s different if that reunion is my childhood friend.
If I was in danger, wouldn’t it protect me with that talent?
I’ve seen Yoo Ha-yeon’s talent for a long time, so I don’t know if it’s in the old days, I didn’t feel inferior at all.
I just do what i can
In order to stand on the same line as Yoo Ha-yeon in the future, the only way I could do it was to work hard.
The moment I left my seat while watching Ha-yeon like that.
In my eyes, I could see the familiar look of dark blue hair.
Watching Ha-yeon Yoo training, she pressed her lips together.
“Bitch like a dog…”
Lee Seol-ha.
She growled towards Yoo Ha-yeon, who had been given the position of chief by Ha-yeon Yoo.
Her deep blue eyes were burning with jealousy as if submerged in the deep sea.
I felt a little sympathy in Lee Seol-ha’s eyes.
‘I know those eyes best.’
In the past, I was often compared to Yoo Ha-yeon, and my heart was hurt.
When I looked in the mirror, I compared myself with Yoo Ha-yeon, envied Yoo Ha-yeon’s talent.
I used to look ugly in jealousy like that.
‘Well, not now.’
For now, I just admit that I am weak and work hard.
There was no jealousy in Yoo Ha-yeon.
Because she and I are a couple.
It was good news for me that she was doing well.
Having a past when I was jealous of Yoo Ha-yeon, I thought that Lee Seol-ha resembled me in the present and in the past.
Perhaps Lee Seol-ha was conscious of my gaze, he turned his head and looked at me.
She spoke to me in a sharp tone.
“What do you have to say to me?”
“No. I was looking at my childhood friend, so I was wondering what’s going on.”
“childhood friend..?”
When he heard the word “resort childhood friend”, he looked at me with more alert eyes, as if he knew who I was.
With a strong sense of pride, she began to recognize Yoo Ha-yeon as an enemy, or me as an enemy.
“Turn it off. I have nothing to say to you.”
Lee Seol-ha frowned and kept her distance from me.
Well, if it was her, she would have avoided even talking to me.
She was a person who hated men touching her.
It was clear that he would hate even talking to me.
‘Men haters.’
Since Lee Seol-ha was the main character in V. AGE, the past was also detailed.
Seol-ha Lee, who is talented but grew up in a poor family.
She is quite obsessed with money, and has a strong sense of pride, so she does not lend a shoulder to others.
Is it because of his father who used violence at home?
She instinctively never forgave a man’s body touching her.
‘I wanted to talk more, but I’m sorry.’
Knowing her cure, I feel sorry for her, whom I will meet in Episode 2,
I decided to literally disappear.
With only one word left.
“You look like me.”
“What..?”
“Just. Yes.”
He replied as if there was no absurdity.
It seemed to have the same meaning as ‘what do you know about me’.
V. If you’ve played AGE, you can’t be unaware of the existence of Lee Seol-ha.
I bid her a short goodbye,
I moved to the training ground where I could increase my proficiency in ranged weapons.
‘If you flirt, Seol-ha Lee is good. There is no bad ending.’
So, while thinking about my life.
***
Training to hit the target is simple.
It ends when you pull the trigger toward the visible target.
Increases the abilities related to agility, which increases body acuity and reaction speed,
A training method that resulted in increasing the proficiency of firearms.
This was easy to say, but in practice it required hellish concentration.
“Green stone.”
The act of changing the power of the Manastone Golem into agility to increase the agility of the body.
Because of that, my eyes would have turned green now.
Vision better than usual.
I can see the flow of moving objects, and it made me learn the sense of pulling the trigger.
Bang!
Gunshots resound, and circular objects protrude from the side.
If you center it, you get a high score.
If you match the edges, you get a lower score.
A training system that allows you to match an object at a given time and judge your ability with a score.
I tightened my eyes and kept pulling the trigger.
Bang!
Bang!
Still, it was because the agility was increased by 3 by using the rust stone.
The bullets didn’t go in a strange direction like when I had a mock battle with Nayuna in the past.
I vomited a little regret inside.
‘It would be better if the bullet could contain magic power. I’m sorry.’
Since you can’t use two of the Mana Gem Golem’s cores at once,
Since the agility has been increased with rust stone, you cannot use bullets with magical powers.
That fact came to me fatally, so it was a very disappointing part.
‘The best thing is to get the power of Fenryl…’
If, as Fenril said, we increase the number of people beyond 4 to 5 or 6,
By gaining the ability of an S-class beast, the probability that I can clear V. AGE increases exponentially.
The ability that the S-class hero, who was the original owner of Fenryl, showed, had that level of power.
‘But would that be possible?’
One half of a cohabitation relationship.
And practice dating with childhood friend Yoo Ha-yeon.
Even if these two are mixed, it is very difficult to coordinate.
Increase to 4 people, increase to 5 people?
‘That’s crazy.’
If that’s the case, then I really shouldn’t have any remorse for cheating.
You have to put an iron plate on your face.
Really, can I do that?
‘Maybe possible..?’
I don’t know if it’s because of my pride, but to be honest, I thought I could do it.
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Just do it?
“First of all, let’s start with training. There are still two years left to live…”
There is still plenty of time.
My school trip is approaching, and I just keep training until episode 2 starts.
I used the rust stone to raise the visual acuity of the body and pull the trigger.
Bang!
Bang!
Every day at the training ground, my gunfire rang out.
***
Gunshots sounded, and the days of practicing weapon proficiency were repeated.
Half Hana spends more time at the academy, and it is safe to say that she has almost adapted to school life.
After a normal, calm, but tense daily life.
The day of the school trip.
I was about to leave, pack all my things, and go out of the dormitory.
At that moment, Banhana shouted.
“I..I want to go too! Sijun!”
“It’s Hana. I told you yesterday too. Because you can’t go..”
Banhana grabbed my sleeve and looked at me pathically.
But I couldn’t take a class like that on my own.
Banhana, known to the world, is a person who still needs to be protected from the Black Dawn.
Unlike me, she was not yet able to leave the academy.
I stroked Banhana’s head, reassuring her.
“Still, Shin Shi-hwa is still there and said that he will look after you. You won’t be lonely.”
“…”
The other half sat on the bed without saying a word.
She also knew that no matter what she said to me, it wouldn’t change.
Therefore, the only thing Banhana could do was promise the future.
“Then, go and come back. Give me more! I’ll keep giving you! So that your heart is full!”
“That..that’s enough for me! Because one is kind!”
Banhana shouted that, and declared that she would be nice while I was away.
I’m growing up.
Unlike the first time I saw it, Banhana equipped with patience.
I had to tell her I would do it.
“Okay, I’ll be fine.”
“Buy a present! Present!”
After I put my lips on the forehead of half Hana.
I headed out of the dormitory.
‘I want to be good.’
No.
Must be good
And, I am confident.
Episode 2.
The starting point that marks the beginning of the full-fledged V. AGE.
Class A gate held during academy field trip.
I remembered the strategy of that gate and took the first step towards clearing the world.